The New Yorker published its first issue in 1925, amid what the writer Adrienne Raphel has described as a nationwide “crossword craze.”But more than seventy years passed before the magazine ...

Crossword puzzles are a unique type of puzzle where you can use your knowledge, spelling ability, process of elimination, and more to figure out what the clue is referring to.

“There are crossword puzzles and crossword puzzles,” Stephen Sondheim wrote in 1968, by way of an introduction to the British-style cryptic puzzle he briefly constructed for New York magazine ...